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his family says there will be a viewing for him on friday, this upcoming friday, the day after chris mas. and then, on saturday, at 10:00 a.m., in queens new york, there's going to be a funeral for officer ramos. now, whether every a police officer is killed in the line of duty in the united states, the funeral is a big deal. line of duty funerals, you will often see not just local law enforcement, but police officers from all over the country. in this instance, that may be doubly true because of the nature of this killing in particular. we do not know when the funeral is going to be...

Incumbent senator, conservative republican thad cochran, to court black votes in his run-off with the tea party challenger chris mcdaniel. joining me to discuss that intriguing strategy and the strange twists and turns, angela rye, former south carolina republican party chair kate dawson, and bob herbert, a distinguished senior fellow at demos. i'm going right to you, kayton to talk about this strategy. i think we have a newspaper ad we can show you that's showing the strategy that he's trying to use, which is to try and court black voters. he's got the help of a guy named james warren, a blac...

This. the folks who are most likely to be engaged in any type of electoral politics if they're black and democrat, they already voted in the original primary for the democrats. so they're not eligible to vote in the gop run-off today. so that's the real issue here. i think more over, is it true thad cochran has done more than some of the other conservative senators from other states? absolutely. he's absolutely worked with hbcus in the state of mississippi. i know my former boss congressman thompson would say he's also very helpful in ensuring katrina funding. the bigger issue here is the fact...

luther king jr. and coretta scott king, al sharpton shares his thoughts. but first to capitol hill, where the house held its third hearing in five days into the critically important and urgently pressing national matter of what happened to former irs employee lois lerner's missing e-mails. today's smoking gun witness before the oversight and government reform committee was jennifer o'connor, a current white house deputy council who worked at the irs for decades, years, a year? no, six months. when ms. o'connor was invited to testify, the white house objected saying the discovery of...

And today ryan told nbc news, the "today" program that, quote, i was inarticulate about the point i was trying to make. we're back. paul ryan has been on a poverty kick lately. earlier this month he released a report which blames government programs for perpetuating poverty, said the programs created what's known as the poverty trap. last week he went after school last year roughly 2/3 of his entire $5 trillion in budget cuts. cuts came from medicaid, low-income housing. anyway, ryan would spend much of that savings by reducing taxes on wealthy americans. does that sound fair? what do you th...